The Worst Winner

I was at my local casino and as I sat down, the guy sitting next to me calls over to his friend at another table, leaning back on his chair said “see the batman film?” and nodding “secretively” at the direction of our table, says “the joker”. I only saw him out the side of my eye, but was that directed towards me? There was only 4 of us at the table, and I didn’t note anyone else who would even remotely fitted that description. Now I'm not saying  I look like the joker but I do have a similar hairline, pale complexion and dark eyes, so maybe I don't not look like the joker. And which joker did he mean? I've googled a few pictures since, and you know, maybe. On one hand, I don’t want people to think I look like the joker, but on the other hand, what a cool poker nickname that would be. There was also a poker regular at my table, I had previously made the mistake of equating “poker regular” to “good player”, well he must be, he’s here all the time, or so I thought. Having onl...

Four time WSOP bracelet winner Bobby Baldwin once said "The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses". But bankroll management is boring. It's been 3 years since I started playing poker and when I started out I didn’t even know what bankroll management was. If you had told me what it was before I started I still wouldn’t have done it, but I wish I had. I started playing after watching a fair amount of poker on TV and thinking, “I’d be good at that”. So I stuck $100 into the biggest and most advertised poker site at the time and got to work being a total fish. I understood that I wasn’t going to make money straight away and that for the first while I would lose money, but I had plenty of disposable income, so that wasn't an issue. There's a lot of platers interviewed on TV saying they’ve been playing for a few years, so although I was not expecting to make it onto TV, I did think that it wasn't unreasonable t...